{"id":58818,"date":"2010-10-22T08:29:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T12:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/8cafe15f1953ea496808c409f8d10df8"},"modified":"2010-10-22T08:29:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T12:29:52","slug":"propellants-removed-from-oms-rcs-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=58818","title":{"rendered":"Propellants Removed from OMS, RCS tanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians finished pumping propellants out of the tanks in the orbital maneuvering and reaction control systems of space shuttle Discovery so they can replace two seals in a fuel line that had been leaking. The leak occurred at a flange where two propellant lines meet in the shuttle&#8217;s aft compartment. The line serves the orbital maneuvering system engines. The work is being done as Discovery stands at Launch Pad 39A at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>  Work to replace the seals and reload propellants into the systems should be completed on Oct. 25 and is expected to still support Discovery\u2019s targeted Nov. 1 launch date. NASA managers will meet Monday at Kennedy for the STS-133 Flight Readiness Review and are expected to set the official launch date.<\/p>\n<p>  The crew undergoes its L-10 day physicals today and a final bench review of its tools and flight equipment.\u202a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians finished pumping propellants out of the tanks in the orbital maneuvering and reaction control systems of space shuttle Discovery so they can replace two seals in a fuel line that had been leaking. The leak occurred at a flange where two propellant lines meet in the shuttle&#8217;s aft compartment. The line serves the orbital maneuvering system engines. The work is being done as Discovery stands at Launch Pad 39A at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>  Work to replace the seals and reload propellants into the systems should be completed on Oct. 25 and is expected to still support Discovery\u2019s targeted Nov. 1 launch date. NASA managers will meet Monday at Kennedy for the STS-133 Flight Readiness Review and are expected to set the official launch date.<\/p>\n<p>  The crew undergoes its L-10 day physicals today and a final bench review of its tools and flight equipment.\u202a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shuttle-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}